2009 Montes Purple Angel

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  1/30/2021 - kostaslonis Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Drank at home.
  Decanted for 1 hour and slowly drank in 2 hours. 92% Carmenere and 8% Petit Verdot with 18 months in oak
  The wine shows beautiful bright purple (no pun intented) colour.
  In the nose the wine is showing no sign of its age with buckets of blueberries and prunes, violets, sweet oak notes and hazelnut.
  In the palate, the wine has full body without being heavy, smooth tannins, the 14.50% alcohol is well integrated with nice acidity. You get loads of blue berries and blackcurrants that play the fresh part and a few dried ones that contribute to the complexity and next to the few balsamic notes, remind you that the wine you are having is actually 12yo. A few springles of chocolate/coffee notes in the long finish.
  This is a joy to drink now but it could keep for a few more years. A beautiful vintage from an era that it used to retail for €35 !!

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  10/25/2020 - kokato wrote:

  Shared with Matt and Courtney at Island Prime October 25, 2020.

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  9/2/2018 - kfrench150 wrote: 92 Points

  Second bottle tried. First bottle was like drinking purple ink a few years ago. This one has settled down a bit but is still a massive purple beast, full of inky Carmenere fruit. Teeth and tongue staining. It may eventually settle down, but will probably not try again for another 5 years.

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  4/7/2016 - mflesh wrote:

  Nice wine! Cork popped to a dark purple stain. The nose was tobacco, mud, earth, and plum. The pour into the glass revealed an interesting mixture of funeral flowers, terroir, and smoke. The wine on the front was powerfully dark, sharply acidic. Fruit was a combination of plum and purple fruit (mostly plum) that developed better in 30 minutes to show dark earth, mocha, tobacco, and fig. The middle started to develop some notes of mushroom after 3 hours, but before was settled to darker fruit and bramble. At times I thought that I tasted a sort of sweeter molasses? The finish was a little chalky tannic, dark black fruit and earth, hint of clove, plum kind of finished this one. A very complex, dark, full bodied wine, but I'm actually pretty glad that I drank this one tonight because I think it's right at the top of the hill. I see this one continuing to evolve even over the next 4-5 years, but this is definitely a "darker" wine and will only continue to go that direction.

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  1/16/2016 - Ericsson wrote: 92 Points

  Passé en carafe durant 1 heure.
  Couleur rouge violet sans traces d'évolution. Très joli nez, d'abord retenu sur des arômes de zestes d'agrumes, puis virant sur la framboise et les fleurs.
  En bouche, j'ai été impressionné par la densité de ce vin ainsi que par sa longueur. Il lui manque un peu de complexité pour en faire une toute grande bouteille.

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